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PORTUGUESE PAPERS. Antz, Nov. 6.-The last Madrid Gazettes con tinue to state that the Umirper, Joseph, will in a short time set out for Victoria. There are every day Skirmishes between our parties . and those or the ettetny, who are superior in numbers ; the insur gents, however, always give full employment to the .• The division of General Kellerman is supposed to• have eff-eted an onion with that of Marshal Ney, who has-evacuated Salamanc'a, retread into Toro. Their united force is computed to be 16,000 tom, . The movements of General Blilce indicate a speedy and decisive blow in Catalonia : the army of La. Mancha continues to advance. Nov. 7.—ln'accounts of the 29th, it is stated, that on the 281 h the enemy was at Daymeil, and were condueting their artillery to Carrion and Torralva with much infantry and cavalry, leaving in Ciudad Real only 300 horse ; and that our cavalry had ar rived at Monzanares, leaving the infantry and•bead ,quarters in the rear. _ Account 4 of the 30th state, that the enemy con tinues his retreat, and that it is probable that out army will advance :immediately. • • In ' the army of Estramadura nothipg remarkable Las taken place ; it continues still to receive rein furcements, -as well as that of our allies. It is hoped that a general plan .of operations will be speedily toricerted. _The-combined armies of the Nike del Parque, 3 1endezabal, and Ballasteros; not less formidable by their numbers than 'them discipline and valour,•are advancing rapidly against the diviSiOns of Kellernian and 'Ney, who, as has • already ken said, 'are sup posed to hai , e united their forces. Gerona, notwithstanding the scarcity of 'provi sions, gloriously persist§ in maintaining its defence ; but according-to the last accounts, on the authenti city of which we can certainly rely, it'appears, that on the i9th.ult.'.during an aetion beri,veen'Ofir army .Snd that of the besiegers, which continued to four successive hours,' it iecrived considerable. :.succours. Cud grant it maybe so. CallbOVA, Nov. - 3.—The 'celebrated Carate of Quintanilla entered this citylast night, who with his party of :200 infantry, andnearly, as many hofse, seized a Mail froth Madrid to France; - atter killing 43 , and taking i t of the enemy prisoners. He has besides sent the Junta of Molina, in Arra- Ott, .28 waggons of muskets, - taken froth the trench, Coo sabres; of 'the manufaCture of Toledo, 411 a various other articles, taken in the several onsets. This distinguished Patriot maintains that every thing at Rioja announces a coMplete state of insur *edion, notwithstanding the great 'scarcity—of arins. Our army of La Mancha advances without inter- Inissiob 6n the enemy, and its advanced guard has already entered Daymiel. NOTE BY THE EDITOR OF THE LISBON PAPER. " This intelligence does not agree, however; with that from Cadiz, according to which we learn that th e enem y was still at Daymiel, but it is certainly adore likely that at Cordova they should know the Thovecnents of our armies than at . Cadiz. I am therefore inclined to give every credit to this last in- Nrtnation, with other accounts which.i have from Darius quarters." Vice, OCT. 11.—W e are assured that three bat talions of French infantry h ave kit the vicinity of Gerona, on their way to Franoe. There is no ques tion 'hat the cause Must be very urgent that has n duel the enemy to recall those troops from A posi tion where the enemy has' so iripen need of rOn forct.ment. TARANCOItI, OCT. 18..—A 'party of Spinish Pikemen arrived to-day at this city from Cuet2k, Ind this evening or to-morrow morning.Areater d butnber are stilt vxpeed. Between AlmodiEwlit d 'loudegor 117 French infantry, with 24 royalty,. 'ere surpri s ed by a numerous party from Emprvi -bad°, and engaged for more than three hours, when l everal of the French were killed, and the rest taken .I)tisoners. Couriers have arrived at Madrid from Santander, 'ictoria, Burgos, and Itioaja, which has occasioned tll tich disquietude to the 'partizans and supporters of the, r Fr ench . A ccor ding to letters from Yevenas and ' °le , d °. Marshal Victor haS assembled in that neigh bournood 30,009 men. The Officers of the Tribu als of , POlice, established by the usurped Govern nr.lent of Burgos and Victoria, have arrived at M'a'drid.' ‘-erieral Sebastiani is still in that capital : itziSsaid; det he i s to set out f or Fra n c e , an d t h at hi s cor p s , ,4g the f ourt h di v i s ion o f the army, will be joined 0 that of Marshal Victor. . According to reports brought,by an inhabitant of this place, who has 'just arrived from Ocanha, it is !fated that the advanced guard of the French cavalry, 'rum some 'misunderstanding, continued to tire a c onsiderable time upon each other, and had a num ber killed. In consequence of this alarm, the troops that were at Ocanha anti Aranjuez, have abandoned those places. CIUDAD RODRI GO, OcT. 30.—Our army con -I:ttiues at Salamanca. Last night 200 dragoons ar rived here from Caceres, and soon afterwards more ' ta in. It is certain that General Garcia has had two successful actions with the French infantry from Astorga, and . the latter lost 500 men of the 2500 that were engaged. Situ raLA,Nov.2.—AccOrding to accounts received f , r om La Mancha, the en em y i s retrea ti ng to T o l e d o , it'avin g some detachments in Ciudad Real, Carrion, and Torralva : notwithstanding this, their bead tlllarters were at Daymiel ; but it i s ce r ta i n t h at some re giments % are retiring by Mo ra , an d we are assure d ;ley intend to unite at Toledo, and that they. have remanded daily rations from the ne i g hb our i ng .v il. a geS• (Later information confirms this account of t he retreat of the French.) 11 Accordin g t o a l et t er f rom T a l avera , th e enemy i s f, ci ting in the villages adjoining. the T agus t h e few v r ees which he has there. XCHANGE, DEC. I.—T here are but few :sh arrivals of Wheat to-dat, but t o lerable supp li es 4t . 1 N on hand, part Foreign, sales are at 'little flutiu -111 i Barley in demand, a short supply; and rather prayer ; White Pease likewise ; Beans support their ,%!e ; there a t e t o l er abl e ' supplies of O ats , an d 4 1 `"Pies of best quality are higher; prices of FlourNl' last currency.. 824N1811 PROCLIMATIOA, FO ASSEMBLING THE CORTES. SEVILLE, N9v. 3 Maieity: has thought proper to publish the following ManifeSto, the days when the General Cores of the . Spanish Monarchy are to be convoked and held SPANIARDS! By a combination of events, as singular as fortu nate, it has seemedgood to Providence, that, in this terrible crisis, you should not advance one step to wards independence, without like * wise advancing one towards a foolish and feeble tyranny, in order to rivet your 'fetters, and aggravate your chains, pre pared the way for French despotism, which,' with the terrible apparatus of its arms and victories, en deavoured to subje& you, to a yoke Of iron. It at first exhibited itself, like every new, tyranny, under a flattering form ; and its political impostors pre sumed they should gain your favour by promising you reforms in the administration, and announcing" in a Constitution, framed at their pleasure, the em pire of the laws—a barbarous and absurd contra diaion, worthy certainly of their insolence. Would they have us believe that' the moral edifice of the-li berty and fortune of a nation ran be,securely found ed on usurpation, iniquity, and treachery ? But the Spanish people, who were the first of the modern nations to-recognize the true principles of the social equilibrium, that people, who enjoyed before any °flirr the prerogatives and advantages of civil libeny, and knew how to oppose to arbitrary power the eter nal barrier directed by justice, will borrow ,from no i other nation ;naxims of prudence and poliiical I,re , — caution, and tell those impudent legislators that they I will not acknowledge as laws the artifices of in triguers, nor the mandates of tyrants. Ani:uated by ! this generous instinct, and inflamed with the tiation, excited by the perfidy 'with which you were invaded, you ran to arms, without fearing' the ter rible vicissitudes of so unequal a combat, and for . tune, subdued by your .enthusiasm, .rendered y o u hornale; and bestowed on you victor y- , in reward for your val Our; _ _ The itithiediate effeaolthese first advantages, was - the reComposition of the State, at that time divided into so• many faelions bird provinces. ()Ur enemies thought that they had sown among us the deadly" germ of anarchy; and did not . advert, that Spanish judgmeneand circumSpedion were always superior to French - MachiaVelism, Without dispute, without violence, - a supreme authority was established, and the people after having astonished the world with the sreetacle of their sublime exaltation and their vidories, filled it with admiration and respect by their. moderation and discretion. ' • The Central Junta was installed, and its first care was to announce to you, that if the expulsion of the enemy was • the first object' of its attentions, the in terior and permanent felicity of the State was the principal of importance,: to leave it plunged into the flood of abuses prepared for its ruin, by arbitrary power,, would have been, in the eyes of your present Government, a crime as enormous as to deliver you into the hands of Buonaparte. Therefore, when the turbulence of war permitted, it caused to resound in your ears the name of your Cortes, which to us have ever been the bulwark of civil liberty, and the throne % of national majesty ; a =he heretofore pronounced with mrs,ery by the learned, with oistrust by poli ticians, and .with horror by tyrants, but which henceforth signify in Spain the indistrudible base of the monarchy, the most secure suppovts of the rights of T. - q;rdinand VII. and of his faniilV, a right for the People and the Government, an obligation. That 'moral resistance, as general as sublime, Which has reduced our enemies .to confusion and despair in the mills; of their victories, must Not receive less reward. Those battles which are lost, those armies which are destroyed, not without producing new battles, cre ating new armies, and again dtsptaying the standard' of loyalty, on the ashes and ruins which the enemies ' abandon ; those soldiers who, dispersed in one ac tion, return to offer themselves for another ; that populace, which despoiled of almost all they pos sessed, return to their bowies, to share the wretched remains of their property with the defenders of their country; that concert of lamentable and despairing groans and patriotic songs ; that struggle, in fine, of ferocity and barbarity on the One hand, and of re- sistance and invincible constancy on the other, pre— Sent a whole as terrible as magnificent, which Eu tope contemplates with astonishment, and which history will one day record in letters of gold, for the admiration and example of posterity. A people so magnanimous and generous ought only to be governed by laws which are truly such, and which shall bear the great chara6ter of public consent and common titility, a chars ter which they tn can only receive by eatrating from the august as sembly which has been announced to you. The Junta had proposed, that it should be held during .the whole of the ensuing year, or sooner, if circum stances should permit , but in the time which has intervened since this reselution, a variety of public events have agitated the minds Of the people; and the difference of opinions relative to the organization of the Government, and the re-establishment of our fundamental laws, has recalled the attention of the Junta so these important objets -with which it has latterly been profoundly occupied. It has been re- commended on the one hand, that the present Go vernment should be converted into a regency of three or five persons, and this opinion has been represent ed as supported. by one,of our ancient laws applica ble to oor present situation. But the situation' in. which the kingdom was when the French threw off the mask of friendship to execute their treacherous usurpation is . 'singular in our history, and cannot havebeen fdreseen in our institutions. Neither the infancy, nor the insanity, nor even the captivity of the Prince in the usual way in which these evils oc cur, can be compared with our present case, and the deplorable situation to.which it has reducedus. A political poSition, entirely new, requires p o li t i ca l forms and prindiples likewise/entirely new. To.ex pel the French, to restore to his liberty and his throne our adored King, and to establish solid and permanent bases of good government, are the maxims which gave the impulse to our revolution, are those which support and dire& it; ,and that covernMent will be the . best which shall most promote and fulfil these three wishes of the Spanish nation. • Does the regency of which that law speaks, pro trte us_ this security ? What inconveniences; wilat • dengers, how many chvisiona, how many parties, how many ambitious.precensions within at d with, out the kingdom, how much and how just discon tent in our Americas, now called to have a share in, the present Government ? What would become of our cities, ow - liberty, the . cheering prospeots 01 fu ture welfare and glory whiCh now present them-, - seNes? What would become of the objeft most va luab!,.and sacred to the Spanish nation, the pteser vation of the rights or Ferdinand ? The advocates tor this institution ought to shudder at theimmense danger to which they exposed themelves, and to bear in mind, that by it they afforded to the Tyrant a new' opportunity of buyi ng an d selling them; let us bow with, reverence to the Venerable antiquity of the law, but let us profit by the experience of ages; .let 'us open our annals, and trace the history of our Regencies; what shall we find ? A pi . ture,:eqUally melanchbly and frightful,' 0 1 desolation,or civil war ; of rapine, and of human depravity, •in unfortunate Castile. Doubtless in great. States power is more benefici ally exercised by few than by many. Secrecy in deliberation, unity in concert, activity in Measures„ . and Celerity in execution,. are indispensablerequi sites for the favourable issue of the acts of Gevern went, and are properties of a concentrated authority 'only., The Suprerrie Junta has therefore just con centrated its own with that prudent circumspection which neither exposes the State to the vacillations,: consequent upon every change of G - overninent, nor Materially affects the unity ,of the' body which is entrusted with it.—Henceforth a section cow posed of the removable Members will be 'iPc cially invested with the necessary authority 'to direct those measures of the executive power which from their timbre reqUire secrecy, energy, and dispatch. Another opinion, hostile to the Regency; equally contradicts whatever innovation may be attempted to be made in the political form which the Government has at present, and objects to the intended Cortes, as an insufficient representa .tion, it they are constituted according to the ancient formalities, as ill-timed, and perhaps hazardous, in respect to present circumstances; in short, as use less, since it supposes that the superior Juntas, eirci ed immediately by,the people, are their real repre- Sentatives. But the Junta had expressly declared to the nation; that its first attention Mthe great objett would be occupied with the number, mode, and class with which the meeting of this august assem bly, in t he situation of affairs, should be carried into effed ; and after this declaration, it is superfluCus, not to say maliciOus, to suspe6t, that the figure Cortes are to be confined to the rigid and exclusive' forms of our ancient ones. Yes, Spaniards, yoU are going to Have your cnurts, and the national representation will in them be as perfeat and full as it can and ought to be• in an assembly of such high importance and eminent dignity. You are going to have courts, and to have them rmmediately, because the.urgeht situation in which the nation is - placed imperiouSly demands it'; and at what time, graciOus God! can it adopt. this measure helot - than at present ? when an obstinate war has exhausted all the ordinary means, when the ,egotism of 'some, arid the ambition of others, debilitate and paralyse the efforts of the Go vertiment, by their opposition or indifference, when they seek to eradicate the essential principle of the .Monarchy, which is union When the Hydra of Fe . deralism, so happily- silenced the preceding year, by the creation of the. central power, dares again begin to raise its. Poisonous head, and endeavours to pre cipitate us into 'the dissolution of anarchy--:wlien the subtilty of our enemies is s snatoing the moment When our divisions disunite us, to destroy the state, anti to erect then throne on the ruin which our dis at-at-hops afford. them. This is the time, this, to coil e d in one point the national dignity and honour; and when the Spanish people may will and decree the extraordinary "surplus a powerful nation ever . has within it tor its salvation, it alone can encounter and put them in motion, it alone can encourage the timidity of some, and restrain the ambition of others, it al oil e s uppress importunate vanity, puerile pretensions, and inturiated passions, - which; ' unless prevented, go to tear in pieces the Government'; it will, in fine, give to Europe a fresh example of its religion; its circumspeCtion, and its discretion, in the just and moderate use which it is about to make of the gloriousliberty in which it is constituted. *Thus it is that the Supreme Junta, which immediately 're cognised that national representation as a right, and proclaimed it as a reward, now invokes and'. im plores it as the most necessary and efficacious Nine _ dy ; and has therefore resolved that the General Cortes, of the Monarchy, announced in the Decree of 'the 22c1 of May, shall be convoked on the Ist day of January in (he next year, in older to enternn 'their august funtlions the Ist day of Match fol lowing : when that happy day has arrived, the Junta shall say to the representatives of the station— "Ye are met together, 0 Fathers of your country, and re-established in ail the plenitude of your rights, after a lapse of three centuries, when despolisin and arbitrary power dissolved von, in order to stio jecA this nation to all the evils of servitude. The aggression which, we have suffered, and the war which' we maintain, are the fruits of the most shamefuloppression, and the most unjust tyrannY." The Provincial Juntas, who were able to resist and repulse the enemy in' the' first impetus of hi,: inva . - sion, investedttie Supreme Junta h the sovereign authority,. which they exercised fol: a time to give unity to the State,',and concentrate its power.— Called to the exercise of this aut hority, not by am bition or intrigue, but by the unanimous voice of the Provinces of the kingdom, the individuals of the Supteine Junta shevved . themselves .worthy of the high confidence reposed itethem, by employing all their vigilance and exertions for the pre , ervation and.prospeeity , of the State : the magnitude of our efforts will be apparent from the consideration of the enoraiity of Clie evil which preceded. When the power was, placed in our hands, our armies, half formed, were unptovided and destitute of every thing, our Treasury was empty, and our resources uncertain and distant e The despot of France, avail ing himself of the 'tranquility in which the North then was, poured upon the PeninSula the military power then under his command, the most formi dable that has been known. His most warlike legions better provided, and, above all, more nu fruerons than ours, reshed on every side,..tineugh much to their cost,, a g ainst our armies, d e stitu te of the same expert nes.4 and confidence. A new inun dation at' barbarians, who - carried desolation through.- out all the provinces ot - WhiCh they took possessive; fr 1715 the consequence of these reyllrse;, closed wounds of L our unfortunate country began painfully to open, and pour forth blond in torrt.nti ; the y State thus lost half its strength ; I apd,wh'en ;he. Junta, bound to save. the honour, the independi;n:..e, • and the unity of ; the nation, tr.,,m the i!nlpetu)=- invcisiun of the tytrit, took refuge in •At - 011mia, tit division of 20,000 ioeti.repaited to the wails (5f Sit rago-sa,, to bury themselves in its .ruirt%. T:,e army of the centre, bqin,g thus deprived of a gr(-iar Oa of its strength, cii6l.nOt - give to its op-Tacit-pis. that activity and.energy, w;iich must hove have 1:11 , very di derent &nsults.. from' iio;le• of the bat it , ilkles, he a vt , ,nues of:the 'Sierra Morena,• and t bans of. the Tagus,. were only defended by ;i:- :ilied hanclfulls,of.tnen,, to whom could scarcely given the .name, of ;mole!, :Tlic Junta, hou - b y means. of,aCtiVity and sacrifices, resfored thew, so rowed andldisper§edin the:t:•wa battles 'of Cind !,t Real and Mettelin.•.. Instead of despairing ~f .tt, e country, -they reili;mbled their ei. - .Crts, and in a' few days collet leikand opposed. to the •enemy moo° in- , fan,try ancl!o,Qoo cavalry. i• These forces •toie fo - ogb,,r, it, iA,trne, with* suCce - st,..but-al ways wi:th ga:lantry,atrAglory,,, e „ The crepticn, ilie:rep*ratita6;ancfitlye sub..iSterrce of these, armies, Irrie.Jnotie afisorUed, thetcoo siderable supplies which -bared:wen seta us by dur brethren-in America. e hay.e . maintained in the free' provinces unity, order; anti ju,tiee; and ,in those occupied by the enemy, we have' exertcd e71:1- endeaVours to preserve, • thougliTkeretly,• the fire' patriotism, and the bounds' of loyalty. ;We hive. vindicated. thcr national. honour, and independence ;n 'the most"complicated and difficult diplomatic nego ciations, andwe have . made. fie3'd'againo. atiVersity, without suffering ourselves.to , err, 41 - Listing that We should overcome it by our constancy., .We have, without doubt, committed. errars, •woulti willingly, were it possible, .redeem. them with our , blood; but in the ;confusion of events •tholoog. the mountains of difficulites wh:cli.surrounded us, wh o could be certain •of always being-in the right Could we be 'responsible, because one body of trooi:s wanted valour, and another confidence? beerit,‘ ,one General had less ptudenee, 'and 'Another lb:4S good fortune ? Much, Spaniards, 13:t attributed to our inexperience, muchqo circumstances, but no thing to our intention. That .ever has - been - to - tie. , liver our unfortunate King, from slavery, and pre serveto him a throne, for which Ith,s,Spanish pco )k have made suCh sacrifices, and to ru a i tra i n it ftel independent, and happy. \V have, frixn tlitr•tiino of our institution, promised .a country ;. we have decreed the. abolition of arbitrary power, from the time we announced •the re!establishnient at. our Cortes. Such is, 0 Spaniards ! the use we made of the unlimited power and autholityconfid to its;, and when your wisdom shall have estabish. ed. the basis and form 'of Government most-pror for the independence and good 'of the State, . we vvil resign the, authority into the bands you shall pcmt 'out, contented with the glory of havidg given to 11,e Spaniards. the dignity of a nation legitimately.con stitOted:' May- this solemn and -magnifidenfassetn bly be produalave of efficacious meatis,.:ervrgy,.iind fortune 5. may it be au immense inextingoisha6ie . volcano, from which may flow torrents •ot patriot to re-vivify every -pari , cf this vast monarchy, toint3ame all minds with that Sublime enttok;iasm, which produces the safety and glory of nations, and the despair of tyrants. , Raise yourselvek, noble Fathers of the Country, to the elevation of your high duties, and Spain, ex alted with you to an equally brilliant destit;y, shall see returned into her bosom,, for bet happiness, Fer. dinand VII. and his unfortunate family; sL'e her sops enter on the paths of prosperity and - glory, which they ought .henceforth to pursue, and receive the crown of the sublime and almOst divine eflOrts which they are making.--loyal Alcazar of Seviiie, oa.. 28, 1809. Marquis ASTORGA, President. P. DE RIVER°, SeC,Gell. AGRICULTURAL REPORT-for NOVEMBER. The weather in the early part of Inst month hz.:B been exextremely 'favourable to the young wheat, which requires a mild season to give them firm root to with stand the storms and frosts of winter. The early. sown spreads well upon the ground, and looks very healthy : the latter,' owing to the dry - weather, is but just making its appearance, and Will rluire Solite open mild days to bring out the flag, to cover th,,. land,' which is so necess ar y to ensure a good crop. The new wheats rise better to the flail than was ex pealed; ,their quality is, in general, fine, from their not having received so much injury - from the rains as. was supposed. The straw in swine Countries is ra ther short. Barlies continue to rise a rough and very indif. ferent sample;- those that were harvested without rain, are of a very coarse and ordinary quality; . the straw being very fiaggy, it requi res much trouble and great caret() separate the corn from it wheri threshed. Oats rise well to the flail, and only require sNne sharp frosty weather to make them good provender. Peas and Beans, where they have been threshed for hog-seed, turn out-more than an average crop. 'The late sown turnips are very much improved ; and the very favourable weather in the early part of last month has enabled the farmers to graze off tlieir crops of lattertnath, and to keep their cattle out of the straw-yard, v,hich,,trom•the heavy rains- in har vest injuring the straw, will he but ad indifferent winter resource. <.:rft - ie best .4'ay to consum e th;S in jured straw to,the Anosf,advantage, will' be to cm it up with sweet bay; about 'an inch or an inch and a half long, and mix it - well by shaking before it is put into the trough. • . SMITHFIELD MARKET, Dim. r. This day's Market was not well supplied with.. different kinds of Cattle; -Mutton is soinething cheaper than our last report ; Beef, Pork, and Wal, support last, prices; and the trade for the mast part was somewhat flat.—The sales in the Hay Market were inconsiderable; Straw sold at last price ; Hay and Clover have fallen in .price.—The audertnen, tioned: prices and numlaers are an accurate slate- went . . To sink the Offal per stone of 81b. Beef cd. to ss. od. Mutton 4s. od. to ss. 6d. Veal i s od. top. cd. Pork 61. od. to 7s. od. Bea:lts 450. Sheep 3,7oo.—Calvt.ts 23o.—Pits 3to. SUITIIhELD HAYMARKET. "Hay sl. os. od. to 51.155. od. Straw thzjs, yd. t) ed. Clover GI. Qs. old, to GI: tc .24.